Sport classification for athletes with visual impairment and its relation with swimming performance

• Main Authors: Elaine Cappellazzo Souto (Author), Leonardo dos Santos Oliveira (Author), Claudemir da Silva Santos (Author), Márcia Greguol (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The medical classification (MC) adopted for swimmers with vision visual impairment (VI) does not clearly elucidate the influence of vision loss on performance. In a documentary research, the final time in the 50-, 100- and 400-m freestyle events and MC (S11, S12 and S13) of national (n = 40) and int...